Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Delayed amid coronavirus concerns

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Delayed amid coronavirus concerns

Warner Bros has pulled its Christopher Nolan-directed espionage thriller "Tenet" from its release calendar.

The highly-anticipated film was originally scheduled to debut on July 17, but it was pushed back to July 31 and then August 12.

According to Variety, the studio is looking forward to announce a new release date "imminently".

"We will share a new 2020 release date imminently for Tenet,' Christopher Nolan's wholly original and mind-blowing feature.

"Our goals throughout this process have been to ensure the highest odds of success for our films while also being ready to support our theater partners with new content as soon as they could safely reopen," said Warner Bros chairman Toby Emmerich in a statement.

The development came at a time when cinema halls across the US are in the process of reopening after months of coronavirus-induced shutdown.

Emmerich further said they are not treating "Tenet" like a "traditional global day-and-date release", adding that their upcoming marketing and distribution plans will reflect so.

The movie features John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Caine, Clemence Poesy, Dimple Kapadia and Himesh Patel.